Management struggles with organizational changes

This dissertation concerns change processes in organizations. It concerns how different types of knowledge interact in major change processes. Knowledge is to be understood as local and concrete practices, which are defined and exercised in a particular context. Thereby, knowledge is connected to and organized by specific power relations, which are embedded in and communicated via language, actions and physical symbols. The starting point is Foucault's concept power/knowledge, which is combined with the symbolic perspective in culture theory. Because of its emphasis on processes, the local and the contextual, it is argued that power/knowledge can handle change processes better than conventional approaches in culture theory.